Narrating spiritual well-being in relationship to positive psychology and religion
Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship
| Field | Value | |
| Title | Narrating spiritual well-being in relationship to positive psychology and religion | |
| Creator | van Rooyen, B. Beukes, R.B.I. | |
| Description | Constructed as new and located in the discourse of positive psychology, “spiritual well-being” is a signifier with a (his)story in which one possible reading is highlighted in this postmodern (de)constructive narrative. The construction of “spiritual + well-being” could be narrated as a secularisation of the religious by positivist psy-complex knowledges, where spiritual well-being is reconstructed as a measurable outcome. Or it could be nar-rated as a “spiritualisation” of the psy-complex by religious knowledges, with measurable well-being becoming dependent on the pursuit of the postmodern, multiple-storied spiritual/ religious features. As the psy-complex has followed medicine from a focus on pathology to a focus on holistic wellness, it has found itself in the religious realm which it has simultaneously centred and marginalised. Additionally, as the psy-complex has moved from measuring illness to measuring wellness, it could be described as having constructed new categories of non-well-being or ill-being. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2009-07-26 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/koers.v74i1/2.115 | |
| Source | Koers - Bulletin for Christian Scholarship/Bulletin vir Christelike Wetenskap; Vol 74, No 1-2 (2009); 23-42 2304-8557 0023-270X | |
| Language | eng | |
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